Straight man of steel

Chapter 382
Zhang Yuan didn't pay attention to the mental activities of the waiter at the door.

Standing in front of him was Chu Da with a haggard look on his face. Originally, Chu Da was almost 40 years old.

Now it is obvious to see a few strands of white hair among the black hair.

"Brother Chu, what is this?"

Zhang Yuan was a little surprised by the uncontrollable excitement flowing from Chu Da's expression.

Zhang Yuan had earlier guessed that Chu Da was just tricked by Chen Ajiao and had to step down from the position of Shaofu Ling, but now it seems that unless Chu Da is too utilitarian, there is another explanation.

"Ayuan, I actually have a hidden agenda in this matter."

"Bangdang."

When Chu Da was halfway through speaking, there was a sudden noise outside the door.

Zhang Yuan pressed Chu Da's hand, then pulled out a dagger from his boots, and moved over quietly.

He opened the door abruptly, only to find that it was still the little girl from just now.

There are two wine bottles on the ground.

The sound just now should be the sound of the wine bottle falling to the ground.

"What are you doing?"

"Tai Xue ordered Dajia to come to our small shop, and the master asked Xiao to bring you some wine and food."

Xiao Er's legs began to tremble, and he didn't expect that when he was about to knock on the door, one hand holding the tray was not stable enough to cause the wine bottle on it to fall to the ground.

Zhang Yuan put away the dagger in his hand, he was afraid that the little girl in front of him would not be able to bear the cold light brought by the dagger.

"Clean it up, so you don't have to send food and drinks to the room.

I have something to discuss with the people in the room, and someone else approached here and disturbed us. "

"The villain knows."

Zhang Yuan waited for the young couple to leave before closing the door again and returning to the room.

"Ayuan, you don't have to be so nervous, no one is watching me now, and there are not as many embroidered messengers under your Majesty's imagination.

If you came to watch, it was aimed at you, but I guess you should have just rushed all the way to Du County, and the embroidered clothes messenger should not have time to prepare. "

Chu Da was a little nervous just now, but he completely relaxed because of what happened outside the door and Zhang Yuan's actions.

It's as if he himself is an irrelevant person now.

"I'm a little too cautious, Brother Chu, you can continue with what you just said."

Now Zhang Yuan only knows what Chu Da has hidden secrets, and there are only three people that Zhang Yuan has been worried about in Chang'an, Wei Qing and Chu Da have Sima Tan.

The relationship with Wei Qing Chuda is a pure brotherhood, and for Sima Tan Zhang Yuan is entirely because he did a big favor to Zhang Yuan at the risk of beheading, and Sima Tan's character really makes Zhang Yuan admire him from the bottom of his heart. .

“Hmm, my matter is not as simple as you know.

Let’s start with the Queen’s matter first. Maybe you don’t know that Miko Chufu was actually introduced to the Queen by me. "

"what?!"

This has already made Zhang Yuan unable to express his feelings with surprise, this is completely shocking.

If this is really what Chu Da said, it would be a miracle that Chu Da could stand in front of him completely now.

It's not the same as Zhang Yuan repeatedly angering Liu Che. Zhang Yuan did not commit any crimes, and did not make any fundamental mistakes.

As for contradicting the emperor, the standard of measurement is not the minister or the law, but what the emperor thinks.

If you can make up for it, then contradicting the emperor is a loyal minister's advice.

If you can't make up for it, it is the best way to seek death.

"Ayuan, you don't have to be surprised at this point, the empress has not given birth to a prince for more than ten years, and many people inside and outside the palace are rushing about this matter.

At least half of the annual taxes collected by the Shaofu had to be spent on this. As for the witch Chufu, she was only recruited by the queen under the guise of praying to the gods and ghosts so that she would give birth to a prince as soon as possible.

Otherwise, do you think me and those Weiyang Palace guards are fools?Put more than 100 wizards into the palace? "

Zhang Yuan wiped away the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead without losing his composure.

This Chen Ajiao is not a fool, on the contrary, she is very smart, and she made fun of this group of officials.

If this matter is to be done, the palace guard must not tell Liu Che first, and then Lang Zhongling must strictly keep the secret, and finally Chu Da must not let Liu Che know in advance.

Fabricating a lie made the three big Han Qing doctors fall into the trap.

Fortunately, Liu Che didn't lose his mind. Except for that idiot Gongsun Ao who kept scolding Zhang Tang, Zhang Tang had to give Gongsun Ao some trouble, the other two should be considered safe and sound.

"I understand, Brother Chu, you continue to talk."

Chu Da calmed down his agitated mood just now, and then continued to speak.

"After I realized that the purpose of those wizards was not just to seek a child for the queen, I asked some people to follow them.

It turned out that many wizards were wandering in the harem all day long, and only then did I discover some problems.

This group of people is to give witchcraft to the ladies in the palace.

Now everyone may be guessing who reported the Queen, otherwise His Majesty would not have discovered this matter if he had not returned to Weiyang Palace for a long time.

The maidservants of the yellow family in the palace did not dare to speak up even if they knew about it. As for the officials and palace guards guarding outside the queen's palace, they knew that it would be a capital offense for them not to tell.

If that's the case, it's better to act as if you didn't see anything. If the Queen can do everything seamlessly, everyone will be safe and sound. "

"Then who actually reported on the Queen?"

"I!"

Zhang Yuan finally knew why Chu Da resigned, and he was able to survive.

Chen Ajiao was his master, and a retainer reported his master, so no one would dare to use him in the future.

At this time, Zhang Yuan was really thankful for his status, and he could frankly say in the court that this is not that.

And people like Chu Da and the others can dictate to the outside world, but internally they can only do what others say.

There is only one master, and the hateful big man system forcibly added three masters to Chu Da.

According to the regularity of the law, the queen mother is higher than the emperor and the queen, and the emperor and the queen are parallel existences in the eyes of the world.

It would be great if it was really the same as the slavery system in the later generations. In the mouth, a bunch of people have to be called masters, but in fact there is only one master, and whoever controls the government is the master.

The current situation is obviously that Chen Ajiao's status is not as good as Liu Che's, but even if she is weak, as long as she sits in the queen's position for a day, she will be the master.

If Liu Che wanted to abolish Chen Gillian for no reason at all, he wouldn't even mention these words.

The emperor dared not do things that would risk the disgrace of the world.

Sometimes Zhang Yuan really feels sorry for Chen Ajiao, if she has a child, what kind of situation will it be like in the future.

Can he really put all his mind on Liu Che?

After having a child, Chen Ajiao will become like Wang Zhi.

As long as the crown prince is her child, it doesn't matter how many women the emperor has around her, who else can shake her position.

But these are Zhang Yuan's guesses after all, and childlessness is the root of disaster after all.

"I have to inform the queen, otherwise you will know what will happen."

Chu Da was in a rather sad mood at this time.

"I also know that those witchcraft can't hurt the ladies in the palace?
But what if?In case someone really dies because of being cursed, I don't want the whole Chu family to die because of it.

Now I have reported to His Majesty through my mouth, and let Your Majesty know that I really did not know the Queen's purpose, so I invited the wizard into Weiyang Palace.

Then resigning to His Majesty is an admission that he has committed a crime and is willing to take responsibility for it.

Zhang Tang came once when I was kneeling outside the Jianzhang Palace and resigning from office.

I was terrified!
His cloudy eyes, I saw once when I was a child.

I saw it once from Zhidu's eyes, Ayuan, do you know the kind of eyes that can make a baby stop crying?
Not only can it stop babies from crying, but it can also make us adults aphasia. "

Zhang Yuan's face was gloomy and terrifying.

People like Zhidu and Zhangtang Wang Wenshu can leave their names in the annals of history with the name of cruelty, maybe they really came out of hell.

"I know.

In the future, in the Han court, I have two people who will not provoke unless it is absolutely necessary.

One is Zhang Tang, and the other is Dong Zhongshu. "

Chu Da nodded fiercely a few times.

"Zhang Tang is scary on the surface, and Dong Zhongshu is gentle and virtuous on the surface, but his heart is extremely stench.

You don't know many things, Ayuan, and many people don't know.

His Majesty's mind, Dong Zhongshu's mind, the relationship between His Majesty and Dong Zhongshu, and the relationship between Confucian scholars in the world.

It was a big mistake for you to ridicule Confucian scholars in front of His Majesty earlier. Your Majesty also treated you with a mask. Don't really think that Confucianists will compete with Your Majesty for power.

Maybe in the future, but definitely not now, His Majesty wants Confucianism to become a knife in his hands. "

Different from his previous performance, Chu Da said these words to Zhang Yuan almost like crazy.

"Why do you say that? Your Majesty's reuse of cruel officials like Zhang Tang and Confucian scholars is not for the ruling policy of foreign Confucianism and internal law?"

Chu Da shook his head fiercely.

"A Yuan, you haven't met Dong Zhongshu, have you?"

Zhang Yuan also shook his head.

"It's true that I have never had a chance to see it."

"Earlier, when His Majesty and Dong Zhongshu were asking questions in the hall, I was by the side.

His Majesty asked Dong Zhongshu if Confucianism had any speeches or classics for handling cases and convicting.

Dong Zhongshu asked His Majesty with a smile, saying that what His Majesty wants is a fair ideological basis for handling cases or an ideological basis for handling cases that serve the imperial power.

How do you guess His Majesty answered? "

It can be said that Zhang Yuan understood Liu Che and Zhang Yuan, so he said it directly.

"The latter should be chosen, the ideological basis for handling the case to serve the imperial power."

"Yes and no!"

"Oh?"

"Let me tell you a story, or a case.

Wang Da had no son, so he picked up an abandoned baby as his adopted son. The adopted son's name was Wang Er.

After Wang Er grew up, he killed someone, and Wang Da hid Wang Er.

According to the law of the Han Dynasty, hiding a prisoner is a felony, Wang Er should be sentenced to death, and Wang Da should at least have to be whipped hundreds of times, and then either go to jail or join the slave army.

Ah Yuan, tell me how you should be convicted? "

"It should be punished according to the Han law.

Wang Er murdered and died, and Wang Da had to be severely punished for covering up the criminal, but Wang Da's punishment could be reduced as appropriate. "

"Hehe, what you said is right, you can mitigate it as appropriate, but you can't go without punishment.

But according to Dong Zhongshu, Wang Er is guilty, Wang Da is Wang Er's father, and it is natural for a father to protect his son, so Wang Da should not be guilty. "

Zhang Yuan really didn't know anything about the law. He only knew that he couldn't do murder, arson, robbery and so on.

As for subdividing it down, he really didn't know much about it.

However, Zhang Yuan was a little surprised by this kind of punishment based on emotion alone.

This is not purely based on the conviction of the heart.

As long as it is the nature of human beings, and it is an expression of good intentions, even killing people is not a crime.

Just like a husband and wife quarreling, the husband has been abusing his wife, and one day the wife killed her husband unbearably humiliated.

According to Dong Zhongshu, the wife should be innocent.

But if every case is punished in this way, the society will be a society full of loopholes.

If you stepped on my foot today, or scolded me a few words, I will kill you in front of your house tomorrow, and I am not guilty of killing you.

Will society be more harmonious because of this?

Zhang Yuan didn't think so, he would only be more irritable.

The most important thing is that once those law enforcement officers follow their own heart to convict, that is, if they think you are guilty, you are guilty, and if they think you are not guilty, then you are not guilty.

Zhang Yuan immediately understood the crux of the matter.

"Your Majesty wants Dong Zhongshu to use Confucianism to give people like Zhang Tang a reasonable and legal cloak for law enforcement?"

People like Zhidu are called the minions of the country.

People like Zhang Tang are the emperor's minions.

Zhidu still thinks about how to benefit the big man, but Zhang Tang is really just Liu Che's dog, pointing at where to bite.

Now Zhang Tang is still restrained, and he dares to come to the door when someone really commits a crime.

If Dong Zhongshu really found theoretical and ideological support for cruel officials like Zhang Tang, then the world would really be in chaos.

"That's right. Your Majesty's answer at that time was that on the surface it was an act of a saint, but inwardly it must be according to His Majesty's will."

Zhang Yuan used to think that Liu Che's Confucianism on the outside and the law on the inside were literal.

On the outside is the beauty of Confucianism, but on the inside is the strictness of Legalism.

But what Chu Da said now is that Liu Che wants the beauty of Confucianism on the outside, but also wants the strictness of Confucianism on the inside.

And no matter how you look at it, inside and out, they are all the words of a saint.

Even if I, Liu Che, did something wrong, it was also the fault of the ancient sages.

I, Liu Che, am not a saint. How much can you expect me to do?
"Your Majesty is truly far-sighted."

Zhang Yuan was a little speechless, taking one step and seeing three steps is already a genius.

In front of Zhang Yuan, a traverser, he could clearly see that Liu Che was no longer taking one step and seeing three steps.

This is to record everything that may happen in this life.

For possible bad results, the loopholes should be filled in advance.

Zhang Yuan finally knew why the big man remained stable after being bullied by Liu Che for many years.

You are not as strong as him in force, and you can't beat him.

Even if he made a mistake, Confucianism can immediately find a bunch of sages to support him.

Already an emperor, but he is still casting an indestructible golden body for himself.

Really invincible!
(End of this chapter)